230 KOCTflD.K. 



1^378. Derthisa trimacula. 



Bomh,/x trimaetita, ScljifT. Wion. Vert. j). .'iO (1770) ; IlQbn. Kur. Sclimett., 



Noel. fT. 141-'J; Boi»(l. Icoiu«, pi. 72. f. 1 ; Frr. None Ikitr. pi. 401. 



ff. :>-'; Dup. Ix-p. Fr. p. l'j;i, pi. 8J. f. 3 ; Herr.-Soliafl'. Eur. Sclimett., 



N(>ct. ff. lOa-7. 

 Noctua trrsti, Schiff. Wien. Vtrz. |). 312 (1770); Iliibn. Eur. Scliineft., 



Bomb. f. 140; Boisd. Icoiies, pi. 72. ff. 2, 3; Dup. Lcp. Fr., Suppl. iii. 



p. ir,4, pi. 15. f. fl. 

 yoctiui (jiaucina, Esp. Scbniett, iii. pi. 81. ff. 4, 5 (1789) ; Staud. Cut. Lep. 



pnl. p. 170. 

 h'octuii dfti ft macula, Hiibn. Beitr. Sclimett. ii. pt 1. p. 13, pi. ii. f. O (1827). 

 Episciiin hifjmna, Buisd. Iconi'B, pi. 72. fT. 4. b (1H.'12) ; Dup. LOp. Fr. iii. 



pi. 16. ff. \a,b; Bmbr. Ann. i>oc. Eiit. Fr. (2) vi. p. (;0; id. Cat. Lop. 



S. And. pi. 6. f. 4 & pi. 8. f. 1 ; Obi-rtli. F.t. Ent. xiii. pi. vi. f. 42. 

 Episema gruncri, Boisd. Icone.«i, pi. 7.'i. ff. 1,2(1832); Mill. Ann. S<>c. 



Cannes, 1878, p. 35, pi. 4. ff. S-lO. 

 Kpifcma viiicolor, Dup. Ann. Soc. Knt. Fr. iv. p. l'J.3, pi. 4. f. 1 (1835); 



id. Lt'p. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 16t>, pi. 15. f. 7. ' 



Episema tcrsina, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 95 (1872). 

 Episema meridional is. Calb. Iris, i. p. 235 (1884). 

 Episema alhida, Oberth. £t. Ent. xiii. pi. vi. f. 43 (1890). 



Head and thorax ochreous white tinged witli l)rown ; palpi 

 black-hrown at sides ; abdomen ochreous white slightly tinge d 

 with brown. Fore wing pale greyi.sh ochreous slightly irrorated 

 with brown ; the medial area sutt'used with brown except costal and 

 inner areas, the veins remaining pale ; subbasal line represented 

 by black ])oiiits below costa and cell; a ditTnsed brown fascia above 

 base of inner margin ; the anteracdial line obliquely excurved trom 

 costa to vein 1, then obsolete ; orbicular and reniform very lai-ge, 

 ochreous white tinged with red-brown and incompletely delined by 

 black, the former oblique ellij)tical extending to well below cell and 

 confluent on median nervure witli the latter, the cell before and 

 between them and the area beyond and below the reniform dnrk 

 brown; postmedial line double arising from towards ai)e.\, excurved 

 below costa and at middle, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 ; 

 subterminal line only defined by the area beyond it being tinged 

 with red-brown, curved and slightly waved ; a terminal scries of 

 slight brown lunules ; cilia greyish tinged with rufous. Hind 

 wing ochreous white tinged with red-lnown, especially in female, 

 and with traces of a sinuous postmedial line ; the underside 

 whiter. 



Ab. 1. hispana. Fore wing with the ground-colour tinged with 

 blue. 



Ab. 2. tas'tna. Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous, the 

 dark markings reduced. 



Ab. 3. (jruueri. Fore wing with the ground-colour whitish, the 

 dark markings reduced to two black spots in cell. 



Ab. 4. (It')itivt(iciiJa. Fore wing with the ground-colour brownish, 

 a small l>lacU sjiot between tlie sligmata and some lirown before 

 medial part of postmedial line. 



Ab. 5. i/Iaucina. Fore wing rufous with the dark markings 

 almost obsolete. 



